The Twelfth of Never by Ciaran Carson

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The Twelfth of Never by Ciaran Carson

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The Twelfth of Never by Ciaran Carson

The Twelfth of Never, which comprises seventy-seven sonnets written in alexandrines, floats on (or submerges in) the ideal republic or the Otherworld promised in fairy stories, aislings, the land of Cockaigne, lines of cocaine, drunkenness, the land of the green rose, poppy-day imperialism, Loyalist and Fenian ballads, and the rhetoric of July 12thall realms of or tickets to Utopia. The combination of pleasant, even rollicking, conveyanceiambs and anapests, disguised rhymes, lilting linesand sinister endings evokes certain kinds of fairy stories, such as E. T. A. Hoffmann s.

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ISBN 13 9780916390846
ISBN 10 0916390845
Title The Twelfth of Never
Author Ciaran Carson
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Wake Forest University Press
Year published 1998-10-01
Number of pages 91
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

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